About dotnet user-secret

Question

Hi,

I am using "dotnet user-secret" to store our apikey. Our situation is, we have several appsetting files for different environment (for example: appsetting.developing.json, appsetting.production.json .....). I look through the document, the command "dotnet user-secrets set -c " may solve this issue. But in practice, seems "-c" does not store the apikey into separate "UserSecretId". The command I am using is

dotnet user-secrets set -c Development "id" "13“

and then

dotnet user-secrets set -c Production "id" "14"

But when I check the csproj file, there is only one "UserSecretId" and it only stores the value "14". So "-c" actually doesn't work. Could you please tell me how can I set user secrets for multiple environments?

Thanks in advance for your attention and help,
Best regards,
Leo

Answer 1

According to the documentation, user secrets are only used in the local development machine so sensitive data is not committed to source control.

You get to decide how the configuration is stored when deploying to different environment.

Use multiple environments in ASP.NET Core

Answer 2

Hi @Liu, Tonghe ,

As AgaveJoe said, the user secrets are only used in the local development machine.

To set user secrets for multiple environments, you can store them in different environment appsetting.json file. But for the security reason, I suggest you use Azure Key Vault to store the user secrets.

Azure Key Vault safely stores app secrets for ASP.NET Core apps. For more information, see Azure Key Vault configuration provider in ASP.NET Core.

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Best regards,
Dillion